Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:08:31AM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> 
> I think that you are suggesting to do something similar, but your
> change implies that all users of net interfaces should read the name
> from the property list instead of reading it from the ifnet struct?

If that's what is actually being suggested -- ewww.

At some point we have to stop tarting up the entire guts of the kernel
with XML.  Sometimes a simple field in a C datastructure is good enough!

Proplib might be a good hammer, but not every problem is a nail.

Thor